MARKETWATCH.COM INKS AGREEMENTS WITH WASHINGTONPOST.NEWSWEEK INT
PR Wire
November 23, 1998, 8:30 a.m. PT
ractive,
Conde Nast's CondeNet, and ClearStation
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The CBS.MarketWatch.com Web site
(http://cbs.marketwatch.com) today announced that it has entered into online
content agreements with Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, ClearStation, and
CNCurrency.com, a service of Conde Nast's CondeNet. MarketWatch.com has also
recently announced content agreements with Intuit's Quicken.com, Motorola and
Hoover's.
Larry Kramer, President and CEO of MarketWatch.com, said, "Our job is to
cover the markets in real time, and we are pleased to be working with high
quality major media outlets like CondeNet and Washingtonpost.Newsweek
Interactive and innovative stock advisory sites like ClearStation. Their
recognition of our leadership role in providing high-quality and fast online
financial news is gratifying."
The agreements will allow the CBS.MarketWatch.com Web site to continue
delivering diversified and informative financial content to an expanded
Internet audience. Personal finance information from MarketWatch.com will be
available through the CNCurrency site, washingtonpost.com and Newsweek.com.
MarketWatch.com will also incorporate 27 ClearStation articles on stock
evaluation, and ClearStation will incorporate 10 MarketWatch daily news
articles into its forthcoming "Market News and Commentary" module.
"We are thrilled that the CBS MarketWatch.com service is making
ClearStation's education articles available to its large investor audience,"
said Kris Skrinak, ClearStation's president and CEO. "We hope the added
education will help MarketWatch readers make use of trending, timing and
graph-reading analysis in their investment decision-making."
"Our association with MarketWatch adds a great service to CNCurrency.com
that our users will benefit from whether they're investing for the first time
or managing their retirement funds," said Tricia Viscardi, Director of
Marketing at CondeNet. "We are excited that CNCurrency.com is associated with
such a prominent financial news organization -- it enhances our commitment to
creating a full service personal finance resource."
About the CBS.MarketWatch.com Web Site
CBS.MarketWatch.com, cbs.marketwatch.com, (a service of
MarketWatch.com, LLC) is a leading World Wide Web financial site, where
individual and professional investors turn for breaking news, expert analysis
and market data. The editorial team contributes financial and economic reports
to the CBS EVENING NEWS WITH DAN RATHER and CBS News' THIS MORNING. The site
was recently named the number two investment Web site by Barron's.
MarketWatch.com was launched on Oct. 29, 1997, as a joint venture between CBS
Broadcasting Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of CBS Corporation (NYSE: CBS),
and Data Broadcasting Corporation, dbc.com, (Nasdaq: DBCC), the
country's leading provider of real-time financial and market information for
the individual investor. MarketWatch.com is headquartered in San Francisco
and has bureaus in New York, Washington D.C., Los Angeles, and London.
SOURCE MarketWatch.com, LLC
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/CONTACT: Richard J. Berman of Middleberg Associates, 212-888-6610, or
richard@middleberg.com, for MarketWatch.com, LLC/
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